Publisher's Synopsis
Information Technology is having a profound effect on the ways in which food producers operate and interact with others in a competitive world, increasingly concerned about food quality and the environmental effects of their operations. It now embraces the vast resources of the Internet, the use of satellites as survey and navigational aids, and an increasingly software–oriented range of instrumentation and control systems. This book is an introduction to the equipment now available for monitoring and controlling processes in agriculture and related industries, with emphasis on the quality of data acquired and its value to the producer.
